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And even more support for Open Access!
Australian universities and institutes have been given the substantial funding
of $AUD 12,000,000 for a programme to look at the use of digital assets
and their management, with the aim of improving Australia's abilities to
take part and lead in national and international research. One of the four
major projects is called ARROW - Australian Research Repositories Online
to the World - which will examine the support of institutional repositories
holding e-prints, digital theses and electronic publishing. In the first
instance, ARROW will be involve repositories in four partner institutions,
but will go on to expand across the higher-education sector, facilitating
interoperability and promoting joint standards for repository use. The lead
partner is Monash University, with other partners the University of New
South Wales, Swinburne University of Technology, and the National Library
of Australia. In a similar way to the British Library within SHERPA, the
National Library of Australia (NLA) will develop a repository to support
independent scholars not associated with institutions.
Further information can be found through this Media Release.